Appearing on TruNews talk radio this week, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) agreed with host Rick Wiles that Congress ought to revisit questions about the validity of President Obamas birth certificate in light of the recent scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice.

After Wiles and Rep. Duncan discussed their desire to pursue and deport illegal immigrants, rather than extend the possibility of citizenship to them, the host asked if the House has any intention to also pursue Barack Obamas phony identification papers.

At first, Duncan shied away from directly addressing the so-called birther concerns, simply adding that Americans had a chance to vote Obama out in November and, in his belief, regrettably didnt do so. Wiles then asked: If we know they are lying about all these other things, why not go back and say Well, maybe the first scandal was a lie too?

There you go, Duncan agreed. Im all with you. So lets go back and revisit some of these things because Americans have questions about not only the IRS scandal but also about the presidents validity.

Throughout Obamas presidency, various conspiracy theories have arisen about his birth certificates, including the belief that the long-form certificate publicly released in 2011 was a forgery using image-editing software. Though these so-called birther beliefs have been out of the news in recent months, they still seem to hold weight with some of the presidents political opponents.

I don’t think that it is possible to “revisit” an issue that has never been visited. Congress has never held a hearing on Barack Obama’s eligibility.
Obama announced his candidacy on February 10, 2007.

The House of Representatives did pass a non-binding resolution in the 111th Congress in 2009 which contained a “whereas” clause naming Hawaii as the birthplace of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama [House Res. 593] but there was no debate or discussion.

It would be great if a House Committee Chair would agree to conduct an inquiry. Committee Chairs have congressional subpoena power akin to judges’ court orders and testifying witnesses are placed under oath.

Comment at site may say it all: Isnt Barack Obama subject to charges for all of these offenses? Maybe thats why the immigration bill is getting the ultra-fast track treatment; maybe evidence of his ineligibility is mounting toward levels which can no longer be ignored.

Duncan is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management of the Committee on Homeland Security. As such he should be able to schedule them. So when are the hearings on Obama going to start?

Ankeny v Daniels, Indiana: “Based on the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the United States are ‘natural born citizens’ for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents.”—Indiana Court of Appeals, November 12, 2009http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/11120903.ebb.pdf

Taitz v Obama (Quo Warranto) This is one of several such suits filed by Ms. Taitz in her quixotic attempt to prove that President Obama is not a natural born citizen, as is required by the Constitution. This Court is not willing to go tilting at windmills with her.— Chief US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, US District Court for the District of Columbia, April 14, 2010http://www.scribd.com/doc/30040084/TAITZ-v-OBAMA-QW-23-MEMORANDUM-OPINION-dcd-04502943496-23-0

Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: “Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiffs assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise.”—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012http://www.scribd.com/doc/84531299/AZ-2012-03-07-Allen-v-Obama-C20121317-ORDER-Dismissing-Complaint

Purpura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers position that Mr. Obama is not a natural born Citizen due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. The petitioners legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a natural born Citizen regardless of the status of his father. April 10, 2012http://www.scribd.com/doc/88936737/2012-04-10-NJ-Purpura-Moran-v-Obama-Initial-Decision-of-ALJ-Masin-Apuzzo

Throughout Obamas presidency, various conspiracy theories have arisen about his birth certificates, including the belief that the long-form certificate publicly released in 2011 was a forgery using image-editing software. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I suppose it really comes down to the location of Obama’s birth, doesn’t it, Nero? If he was born on US soil, he’s good to go; if he was born elsewhere, then he’s not a natural born citizen (age of mother was insufficient to confer citizenship under applicable US law).

So, was Obama born in Hawaii as he says now, or was he born in Kenya as others, almost certianly including himself by way of his own publicist, have claimed?

What Barry says about his place of birth is pretty much irrelevant. He was too young at the time to know where he was born.
“The state of Hawaii has said that the President was born there, that’s good enough for me.””—John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The state of Hawaii has issued six official verifications for his birth there plus two governors, one Republican and one rat, have confirmed those verifications.

I would absolutely LOVE an official grand jury investigation and a congressional investigation to resolve this issue once and for all but no prosecutor and no congressional committee chair seems interested.

Please don’t bother quoting Boehner—I care even less what he says than I do about what Obama says.

Obama’s own publicist, again, said for 16 years that Obama was born in Kenya. Other authors represented by the same publicist testified that they provided their own biographical details to the publicist, at the publicist’s insistence. The simple inference is that Obama himself claimed to be born in Kenya for sixteen years.

Like you, I would love an investigation. I would not hold my breath waiting for the useless, waste of skin Mr. Boehner et al. to get around to it. However, for posterity’s sake, the truth needs to be determined.

It doesn’t really matter what you or I think of Boehner, its what influence he has over congressional committees and possible investigations/hearings that matter. That’s the relevance of his statement.
There were ZERO objections to the certification of Obama’s electors in 2008 and in 2012 which means that no member of Congress was willing to stand up and take this issue on.
If Congressman Duncan thinks that this issue should be [re]visited, he is a sub-committee chairman of a relevant committee, HE could convene hearings beginning in his sub-committee.

So just because an criminal act doesn't get "traction" (what, in the media?), it shouldn't be investigated and prosecuted? The focus needs to be on ALL of them. To hell with what the Obammunist lickspittle media call us, we want to get to the bottom of this hoax once and for all!

It hasn't gone anywhere because the people who could have pushed it have chickened out or have been threatened/cowed into silence by the Obammunists. If the people who could do something showed some backbone, like Ed Snowden did, maybe this greatest affront ever to the Constitution could gain some traction. Even if it didn't in the lamestream Obammunist lickspittle media, it would pi** off enough on our side to start doing something about it.

Has any state, court or act of Congress successfully challenged any of those verifications?

Former Governor Lingle of Hawaii:
“You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Sen. McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it’s, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this. ... It’s been established. He was born here.”

More than a year before the publisher’s promotional bio for Obama’s never published book was written there were articles in major newspapers about Obama becoming the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Those articles which were written in advance of the “born in Kenya” error named Hawaii as Obama’s birthplace.

In the six plus years since February 10, 2007 when Obama first announced that he was running for president, no one has been able to convince a single congressional committeee chair; any local, county, state, federal judge or Supreme Court Justice or any of the 51 (including Washington DC) chief election officials of the states (usually Secretaries of State or Lieutenant Governors) that he was not born in Hawaii.
Here’s a link to 26 different references to Obama being born in Hawaii:http://www.scribd.com/doc/96756764/Barack-Obama-Was-Born-in-Hawaii

You are not listening to what I am writing: I am not saying Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii! I am saying that he LIED. He is either lying now, or was lying then. He is a fraud and a liar and this needs to be investigated. Perhaps you do not think that potential financial aid and selective service fraud by the President are not serious enough crimes to warrant investigation, but I do.

In the six plus years since February 10, 2007 when Obama first announced that he was running for president, no one has been able to convince a single congressional committee chair; any local, county, state, federal judge or Supreme Court Justice or any of the 51 (including Washington DC) chief election officials of the states (usually Secretaries of State or Lieutenant Governors) that he was not born in Hawaii

Oh....I think most are convinced that something shady has occurred but no one has the backbone to stand up and announce the necessity for an investigation. Not being convinced and being afraid of your own shadow (racism accusations) are two different things.

Regardless, Obama fails to qualify as his (stated) father was a British subject. As such.....he is not a "Natural Born Citizen". If his birthplace was indeed Hawaii.....he is only a "Native Born Citizen".

Constitutionally....."Native Born Citizens" are ineligible to be the "Commander in Chief".

This is so elementary that most grade school students knew this 50 years ago when the Constitution was still being taught in our public schools.

A number of courts have issued verdicts declaring that Barack Obama IS a natural born citizen and no court has ever ruled that he isn’t.
Here’s a couple of examples:
Purpura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers position that Mr. Obama is not a natural born Citizen due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. The petitioners legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a natural born Citizen regardless of the status of his father. April 10, 2012http://www.scribd.com/doc/88936737/2012-04-10-NJ-Purpura-Moran-v-Obama-Initial-Decision-of-ALJ-Masin-Apuzzo

Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: “Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiffs assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise.”—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012http://www.scribd.com/doc/84531299/AZ-2012-03-07-Allen-v-Obama-C20121317-ORDER-Dismissing-Complaint

A number of courts have issued verdicts declaring that Barack Obama IS a natural born citizen and no court has ever ruled that he isnt.

Barack Obama is a "Native Born Citizen" (if he was born in Hawaii). So was "Wong Kim Ark" (being born in the U.S.) whose parents were also not U.S. Citizens.

Constitutionally...it is not where you were born but to whom you were born that identifies your "Natural Born Status". The fact that some courts can't even get this through their heads is a remarkable testament to the complete ignorance of some legal minds we must contend with in this country.

This "Dog and Pony Show" about a stupid birth certificate is nothing but a diversion. His father was a British subject. His birth status is determined by that simple fact! He could have been born in the lobby of Independence Hall in Philadelphia..... on the 4th of July....with the Marine Corps band playing "God Bless America" outside on the lawn. Any 5th grader prior to 1955 would have been able to tell you he was still......not a "Natural Born Citizen" because of his father's British Citizenship! The Constitution was still taught in those days in our public schools.

Interesting legal theory you have there, but in fact, a crime is a crime as soon as it is committed. Is it your assertion that a murder is not a crime until the murderer has been charged and prosecuted?

Have you ever heard of manslaughter? Justifiable homicide? The various degrees of homicide? Self-defense? Sometimes what looks like murder turns out to be suicide. Just because someone has died under suspicious circumstances doesn’t automatically make it murder until there is a law enforcement investigation and a criminal complaint is issued, usually through an indictment by a grand jury.
Here in America, all alleged defendants are entitled to the have the burden of proof in criminal allegations fall to the government. It is a constitutional principle that requires the government to prove the guilt of a criminal defendant and relieves the defendant of any burden to prove his or her innocence.
Barack Obama doesn’t have to prove that his birth certificate isn’t forged, the government (city, county, state or federal) must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it is forged. The first step in that process is to conduct a formal law enforcement (or congressional) investigation.

I didn’t say anything about Obama’s birth certificate—you did. I said that I want to know why Obama’s publicist said for 16 years that he was born in Kenya! I want an explanation. The other authors represented by the same publisher said that they were asked to provide their own biographical details. This was not a typo, nor was it a fact-checking error—this was a case of Obama lying to his publicist and claiming to be born in Kenya.

I want to know where else he lied. Did Obama claim foreign birth in order to receive financial aid during college? I suspect the answer is yes, and that would mean Obama is guilty of felony fraud. You may not think this is a big deal but many Americans, including myself, would disagree with you.

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